Johns Hopkins Holds Off Duke for Lacrosse Title

Johns Hopkins won its first NCAA lacrosse title in 18 years, beating Duke, 9-8, Monday to complete an undefeated season.

Jake Byrne’s goal with 13:35 left in the fourth quarter was the difference for the Blue Jays (16-0), who became the first men’s team to finish the season undefeated and win the national championship since Princeton (15-0) in 1997. This month, Northwestern won the women’s lacrosse championship, finishing the season undefeated with a 13-10 victory against Virginia.

Johns Hopkins had appeared in two of the last three men’s title games, but this victory gave the school its first title since it defeated Cornell in 1987. Hopkins has won eight national titles.

This year’s championship game at Philadelphia was a rematch of a thriller last month, when Johns Hopkins beat Duke, 11-10, in double overtime.

The 44,920 who watched Monday’s game in Lincoln Financial Field set a Division I championship game record, breaking the mark of 43,898 set last year at Baltimore.

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Baylor’s Benedikt Dorsch held off Pierrik Ysern of San Diego to win the NCAA men’s singles championship 6-2, 7-6 (6), at College Station, Texas.

After dominating the first set, Dorsch was leading 6-1 in the second-set tiebreaker before Ysern rallied. Ysern fought off five match points to tie it, at 6-6, but Dorsch won the final two points.

In the doubles championship, Georgia’s top-ranked duo of John Isner and Antonio Ruiz defeated Louisiana State’s Mark Growcott and Ken Skupski, 7-6 (4), 7-5.

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Florida International’s 3-year-old football program was put on three years’ probation by the NCAA after an internal investigation revealed an unidentified assistant coach committed off-season workout violations.

The violations will not affect the school’s plans to move into Division I-A, Athletic Director Rick Mello said.

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Right-hander Travis Lange scattered nine hits to lead Biola to a 9-0 victory over Ohio Dominican in an elimination game in the NAIA World Series at Lewiston, Idaho. Biola will next face Embry-Little (Fla.) today at 11 a.m.

Soccer

U.S. forward Tiffeny Milbrett has been asked to rejoin the women’s national team after a 19-month absence that began because of disagreements with former coach April Heinrichs.

Milbrett, one of the team’s career scoring leaders, said the invitation came in an e-mail she recently received from new Coach Greg Ryan while she was playing in a league in Sweden.

Milbrett said she had been invited to the camp beginning June 19 in preparation for the U.S. team’s next game, an exhibition against Canada on June 26 at Virginia Beach, Va.

Milbrett has scored 99 goals in 199 international appearances.

Aaron Padilla and Claudio Lopez scored two goals each, and Mexico City’s Club America won its 10th Mexican league title after a 6-3 win over the Tecos of Guadalajara in front of 105,000 in Azteca Stadium on Sunday.

The teams tied, 1-1, on Thursday in the first leg of the two-game final.

America tied Chivas for the most Mexican titles.

David Beckham and Michael Owen say they intend to stay with Real Madrid next season.

The two stars joined the English national team a day ahead of the exhibition game against Colombia at East Rutherford, N.J.

“I’m happy in Real Madrid. I want to finish my career there, and that’s the end of that,” Beckham said.

Said Owen: “You can count on the finger of one hand the amount of players that turn down a move to Real Madrid.”

West Ham won a spot in the English Premier League next season by defeating Preston North End, 1-0, on Bobby Zamora’s goal in 57th minute at Cardiff, Wales. U.S. national team player Eddie Lewis is a midfielder for Preston.

Ronaldo, a three-time FIFA world player of the year, was dropped from Brazil’s roster for two World Cup qualifiers next month and the Confederations Cup.

The Brazilian Federation said Grafite will take the roster spot for the qualifiers against Paraguay on Sunday and at Argentina on June 8.

Julio Cesar will replace him at the Confederations Cup, an eight-nation tournament to be held in Germany from June 15 to 29.

Miscellany

Negotiations involving the NHL and the players’ association will resume Wednesday and Thursday in Toronto, first in another small-group setting and then in a full bargaining session.

The sides will be getting together for the fifth week in a row, a schedule they plan to keep until a new collective bargaining agreement is worked out.

With Danica Patrick contending to win, the Indianapolis 500 registered its highest overnight television rating since 1996, according to ABC.

Sunday’s race averaged a 6.6 Nielsen rating with a 17 share of the audience in the nation’s 57 largest markets.

That’s 40% higher than the 4.7/11 overnight numbers for last year’s rain-delayed race and reverses a three-year trend of declining ratings.

John Godina recorded a personal best in the shotput last week for the first time in six years, and he came close again at the Payton Jordan U.S. Open at Palo Alto.

Godina, a two-time Olympic medalist and three-time world outdoor champion, won with a heave of 71 feet 11 1/2 inches at the third event of the Outdoor Championship Series.

In other events, Tracy O’Hara had a personal best at 15-1 in the women’s pole vault, and Dominique Arnold won the men’s 110-meter hurdles in 13.21 seconds, the fifth-fastest time in the world this year.

High school basketball star Gerald Green, a 6-foot-8 guard, has hired an agent and forfeited his college eligibility after making himself available for the NBA draft. Green had signed with Oklahoma State.

T.J. Simers has the day off.